Secret of Mana editor somedit released!

[SanGor]

After over three years in development and after taking a one year break Mop finally released his SoM editor.

Currently you can look at and edit all maps, music, sound effects and scripts.

In the future you will be able to edit basically every part of SoM!

http://somedit.blogs...build-0100.html

The interface:

Spoiler

 

[Hielkenator]

One of my favourite games of all time this is.

 

[Bladexdsl]

it's amazing to see just how simple it looks in an editor but can't rpgmaker pretty much do all this anyway?

 

[Sora de Eclaune]

it's amazing to see just how simple it looks in an editor but can't rpgmaker pretty much do all this anyway?

Yes, but this is for making Secret of Mana ROM hacks. Like AdvanceMap with Pokemon.

Why would you even use RPG Maker? You'd have to recreate an entire gameplay engine.

 

[LunaWofl]

I drooled over this just now

I love this game~ and its sequel~

 

[Bladexdsl]

I drooled over this just now

I love this game~ and its sequel~

you talking about seiken 3 or evermore

 

[Rydian]

This seems pretty cool. It's nice to see graphical editors and such for popular games.

 

[PolloDiablo]

what a great game! brings back so many memories!
It will be great if some fans make a new mana game with this tool!!... because it's cleary that (looking back at the lastest entries in the mana series) square enix doenst know how to make a good one.

 

[Elrinth]

Secret of Evermore isn't sequel to Secret of Mana. It's more of a spinoff
Evermore has a great soundtrack by Jeremy Soule but very different from Mana series soundtracks. Obviously I favourize Yoko Shimomura, Kenji Itou & Hiroki Kikuta above Jeremy Soule, but he still doesn't make bad music, just different.

Also, great work! I maybe will snatch some ideas from this for my own editor (not for Mana)

 

[Celice]

I love when these big announcements come out for romhacking... sadly, it seems a lot of the interest in the older games have died as newer generations came in. Super Mario RPG has an extensive editor, but no audience to use it... hopefully this doesn't happen with Secret of Mana

 

[ZAFDeltaForce]

Finally an excuse to dig up and play one of my favourite classics. Thanks for the heads up mate

 

[signz]

That tool is just awesome. I mean, sure. Atm you can't do that much, but when newer versions come out... Secret of Mana hacks anybody?

 

[Bladexdsl]

Secret of Evermore isn't sequel to Secret of Mana. It's more of a spinoff

i know seiken densetsu 3 is mana II but the battle system in it is crappy IMO not as great as mana.

 

[signz]

Secret of Evermore isn't sequel to Secret of Mana. It's more of a spinoff

i know seiken densetsu 3 is mana II but the battle system in it is crappy IMO not as great as mana.

I still wonder how people mistake Seiken Densetsu 3 as "Secret of Mana 2"... What about Seiken Densetsu (1)? Is it Secret of Mana 0 then? Or the other Mana games - is Children of Mana = Secret of Mana 5?
Ah, well. Besides the logical "Seiken Densetsu 4" (Legend of Mana), there's an "actual" Seiken Densetsu 4 (Dawn of Mana), so I guess nothing makes sense when it comes to numbering the games.

€dit: new version!

Release notes:

- The following things should now be save-able, load-able, export-able, and import-able:
- Music
- Samples
- Events
- 8x8 Tilesets
- 16x16 Tilesets
- Tile data
- Map pieces
- Composite maps
- World map data
- Game font

- Music editor correctly determines song width for scroll bar now.
- Music editor sets scroll bar back to initial position when changing songs or channels.
- Removed BG_ALT and FG_ALT checkboxes on composite map editor.
- Fixed a bug where 8x8 tileset view on the 16x16 tileset editor sometimes didn't show tiles.
- Fixed crash on palette set 127, palette 7.
- Foreign characters should show up properly now, though there is still no real translation.
- Fixed issue where value in numeric up/downs on 8x8 tileset editor would sometimes not change.
- Removed more debug text

Don't forget to grab the appropriate fmod.dll and place it with the exe if you haven't yet.
Read more: http://somedit.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=releases&action=display&thread=13

 

[Rydian]

I still wonder how people mistake Seiken Densetsu 3 as "Secret of Mana 2"... What about Seiken Densetsu (1)? Is it Secret of Mana 0 then? Or the other Mana games - is Children of Mana = Secret of Mana 5?

Earthbound 0?

 

[Bladexdsl]

What about Seiken Densetsu (1)

i guess they decided to skip 2 games this time instead of one like they did in ff